A PRIVATE school teacher who led a booze-fuelled school trip which tragically ended in a boy being gunned down and killed has today been banned from the classroom for life.

Van Lambie-Nairn led a booze-fuelled school trip to Brazil which ended in a teenager being shot dead

Van Lambie-Nairn downed vodka shots with students and left them unsupervised in a Brazilian bar in the hours before the shooting of the son of a Russian businessman, a disciplinary hearing was told.

The disgraced teacher at the £22,000-a-year International Community School in London's posh Regent Park took his pupils out for a drunken evening with his headmaster lover during a trip in September 2013.

A panel heard how he drank with the youngsters, who were also allowed to smoke, before the group returned to the villa they had rented out near Rio de Janeiro.

But neither the 42-year-old nor his gay partner, headmaster Philip Hurd, properly checked the students had gone to bed.

Shortly after Sergey Petrovich Danshin, the 17-year-old son of a wealthy Russian businessman, left the villa and was shot three times in the back of the head and killed.

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Brazilian police believe the teenager may have gone out in search of a drug dealer to buy cannabis. Lambie-Nairn admitted a string of failures on the ill-fated adventure.

A disciplinary panel from the National College for Teaching and Leadership banned him from teaching for life when they met to deliberate on the case in Coventry today.

In their ruling chairman Martin Greenslade wrote: "The panel is satisfied the conduct of Mr Lambie-Nairn fell significantly short of the standards expected of the profession as he allowed four 17 year old students to consume alcohol in his presence and then left them unsupervised in the bar, which failed to demonstrate adequate concern and safeguarding."

The private hearing was earlier told Brazilian-born Lambie Nairn had "carefully planned" the trip to his homeland to "broaden students' minds".

But bar owner Renan Magalhaes Garcia Gutierrez said in a statement he watched on as the pupils downed vodka shots and smoke cigarettes.

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He has been banned from the classroom for life

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Head teacher Mr Hurd was cleared to carry on teaching last month

This case involves conduct the panel has found to fall significantly short of the standards expected of the profession.

Alan Meyrick

Sergey's father, Petr Danshin, an agribusiness magnate in the Black Sea city of Krasnodar, then flew out to Brazil to try to find out what happened.

He has been told police believe his son had gone out to buy cannabis by himself when he was murdered.

The teenager's body was recovered the next day not far from the beachside villa and less than 48 hours after the had arrived in Brazil.

Delivering the panel's judgement, Mr Greenslade said that Lambie-Nairn's actions had "damaged the public perception" of teachers.

He ruled: "The behaviour displayed by Mr Lambie-Nairn affects the way he fulfils his teaching role or may lead to pupils being exposed to or influenced by the behaviour in a harmful way, given that he willingly and voluntarily consumed alcohol with the four students on the trip and took a conscious decision to leave the students in the bar unsupervised.

"Failing to carry out an adequate risk assessment that identified the full range of risks posed by the venue and location of the school trip is certainly damaging to the public perception."

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The incident occurred on a trip to Rio De Janeiro

Lambie-Nairn, who was not present at the hearing and was not represented, admitted consuming alcohol with under-aged students, leaving students unsupervised in a bar, failing to monitor the sleeping arrangements of students and failing to carry out an adequate risk assessment.

He also admitted failing to check students into the apartment rigorously on their return. But the panel cleared him of this as it was agreed he was feeling unwell and Mr Hurd would have taken over responsibility for this.

Mr Hurd was cleared to carry on teaching last month after appearing before a separate disciplinary panel himself.

The 54-year-old was found guilty of professional misconduct but was spared a ban after the panel ruled he "may in future have much to offer in the field of education given his expertise and skills".

He had earlier left the prestigious school, where he had been headteacher for 19 years.

Decision maker Alan Meyrick, on behalf of the Education Secretary, said: "This case involves conduct the panel has found to fall significantly short of the standards expected of the profession. It is evident that the behaviour displayed by Mr Lambie-Nairn affected the way he fulfilled his teaching role."